Briarwood House is an all-female boardinghouse, where it's members eventually become like family when the mysterious Grace joins them in the house. When someone is killed in the house on Thanksgiving evening, the house must stick together to keep all of them safe. First one body is found, and then another. This book will keep you guessing until the end of the novel of who was killed and why?
A Hollywood director making her first big picture attempts to film a climatic action scene on a Styrofoam iceberg in the New Mexico desert before they sun goes down. But trouble comes from her ex turned producer, the star actress recovering from addiction, and a climate advisor butting in to correct the script.
The overall theme is "Women can be Heroes." So little is known about the women who served in Vietnam, this story follows Frankie from when her boring nursing job at her community hospital, to volunteering to serve in Vietnam, a move that shocks and enrages her family. Then, as if the war wasn't traumatizing enough, the real trauma occurs when she is ostracized by the nation upon her return from her second tour in Vietnam. Frankie has to learn to live with the trauma and memories of Vietnam, which proves to be the most difficult thing she will do in her life.